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Why we set a `Cache-Control: Max-Age` of 1 year
It’s standard practice to set a Cache-Control: max-age=31536000 on assets which are expected not to change, such as images. This header instructs the browser to cache the asset for 31536000 seconds, which is one year. Which raises two questions for me: Why a year? Why not ten years, or six months? Do we actually expect browsers… [Read More]
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^ Ways to improve @github #25 – can we have a code expander built into these comments? Sometimes I need to look at the couple of lines preceding or following the line that has been commented on – but currently have to switch to the Files Changed view to do that.
— Chris Ashton (@ChrisBAshton) May 23, 2019